Upon cancellation of the license of any betting company that was issued by the Gambling and Lotteries Regulatory Commission, the money that was paid for this license will remain in the state treasury. This is stated in the Law “On state regulation of activities related to the organization and conduct of gambling”,
KYIV. UkraineGate . 27 . July . 2022 | Political News .
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“In case of annulment of the license by the Authorized Body (KRAIL), the paid part of the fee for such a license will not be returned,” – the ZU says.
The license can be canceled for a number of reasons, in particular if the licensee cooperates with the aggressor state.
“Documentary confirmation of the establishment of the fact of control over the activities of the licensee (…) by residents of states carrying out armed aggression against Ukraine, in the sense of (…) and/or whose actions create conditions for the emergence of a military conflict, the use of military force against Ukraine”, – reported in ZU.
Regarding the latter, the volunteer investigative community Informnapalm released an investigation into how the Russian casino brand 1xBet received a license for gambling in Ukraine already after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
Informnapalm accuses 1XBEt of ties to the Kremlin regime and large-scale money laundering. According to the investigators, the licenses of Tvoya Bettingova LLC LLC for conducting bookmaking activities and organizing gambling games on the Internet were issued under the patronage of Boris Baum, who is called the secret curator of gambling games in Ukraine. Dnipropetrovsk businessman Serhii Tsybin became the recipient of the license.
Immediately after the publication of the investigation, the owners of 1xBet – Roman Semiokhin, Serhiy Karshkov and Dmytro Kazorin, as well as Boris Baum himself got on the ” Peacemaker ” website – a database of crimes against the national security of Ukraine.